All you need to fashion fantastic felt creations is raw wool, soap, and water. This book covers the history, culture, and techniques of felting, and includes photo-graphs chosen to inspire both beginning and advanced felters. There's hardly anything you can't have lots of fun felting.
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Felt is made through a process of exposing moist wool to extremes of temperature and agitation that would shrink your favorite wool sweater to doll size. An ancient craft dating back perhaps to as early as 6000 B.C.E., felting has been rediscovered by today's fiber artists and also by hand knitters who knit oversized socks and hats and felt them to fit. First published in Swedish and translated by American felt artist Spark, this book combines an examination of the historical and cultural roots of felting with practical information on feltmaking and a showcase of imaginative items made from felt. Excellent color illustrations and a resource guide complete this generally recommended volume.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Swedish
Original Language: Swedish
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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The Number 1 Felting Book,
By Ruth E. W. Walker (Columbia, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Felt: New Directions for an Ancient Craft (Hardcover)
If you can buy only one book about felting, make it this one. It is clear, complete, and inspiring for the beginner and advanced felter. It has great pictures and explanations. Individual and group projects are photographed. Gallery photos of art felt are included. There have been many lovely, wonderful books on felting published since this one, but this is still the best. (Many, many thanks to Pat Spark for translating it into English!)
18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Inspirational and informational,
By Kate Stout (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Felt: New Directions for an Ancient Craft (Hardcover)
This is the best book on felting I have seen. It combines historical information with excellent technical advise. The examples of felt projects are fun and useful. If you are going to get one book on felting, this is it!
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Wonderful book.,
This review is from: Felt: New Directions for an Ancient Craft (Hardcover)
I was lucky enough to have someone get this book for me as a gift. I have read it through about 5 times, and can't say I've ever owned a book that had this much useful information in so few pages. Most books about felt will be filled with pictures of things made of felt accompanied by vague instructions of how to copy the particular item. This book will teach you all you need to know to explore the full realm of possibilities within the extremely fluid art of wet felting.
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